GROBLJANSKI KRUG: Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith ‎- The Peyote Dance (2019)

Thursday 15 August 2019

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith ‎- The Peyote Dance (2019)

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith

The Peyote Dance

(2019)

The Soundwalk Collective has made music art out of found sounds since 2004. This time, in "The Peyote Dance" album, they have brought in poet and rock goddess Patti Smith for a trip into Mexico.
The album title comes from a book by Antonin Artaud, the avant-garde theater director and author, who traveled to Mexico to explore revelatory visions with the Rarámuri people in 1936. Artaud was hoping that peyote would shake his opioid addiction. When he later returned to France, Artaud stayed and remained in an insane asylum, receiving electric shock therapy. His time with the Rarámuri stayed a touchstone of happiness during his darkest days.
With a shared belief that travel expands the mind, the Soundwalk Collective traveled to the same Sierra Tarahumarar region of Mexico as Artaud, visited the same places he stayed, and indeed also took peyote. They recorded instruments and soundscapes, and then back in the States, Patti Smith wrote and recorded poems based on Artaud's book, his other works, and her own responses to the sound fields.

1. Una Nota Sobre El Peyote [4:27] featuring Gael Garcia Bernal
2. Indian Culture [9:39]
3. Tutuguri: The Rite Of The Black Sun [5:00]
4. Tutuguri: The Rite Of Black Night [9:57]
5. The New Revelations Of Being [3:37]
6. Alienation And Black Magic [10:43]
7. Ivry [6:47] written by Patti Smith
8. Basalówala Aminá Ralámuli Paísila [4:41] featuring Martin Chávez Ramírez "Makami"